Annual Sea-blite - Suaeda maritima
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Species Description
Widespread and locally frequent along coasts throughout the UK. Habitat includes: Middle and lower parts of saltmarshes, intertidal mud / sand-flats, salt-pans, drift-lines, shell and shingle banks, thinly vegetated brackish sea-walls etc. Growing habit: Annual. Height: Up to 75 cm. Flowers: July to October. Other names include: Herbaceous Seep-weed, Seaside Goosefoot, White Glasswort.
Stace 4:
Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort. - Annual Sea-blite.
Simple to much-branched annual herb to 30(75)cm, often more or less woody at base; leaves 3-25 x 1-2(4)mm, acute to subacute, not contracted or rounded at base; stigmas usually 2; seeds horizontal, shinning but minutely reticulate; whole plant often becoming purplish-red in autumn; 2n=36. Native; middle and lower parts of saltmarshes, often with salicornia spp.; round coasts of British Isles, sometimes by inland salted roads. Very variable in habit and seed-size.